The Devil’s Book Keepers is Set in the early 1940s andwhen WWII is going strong. Hitler has his claws in most of Europe. Poland was one of the first countries that the Nazi’s invaded. Benny _, an engineer who was forced to migrate to the Łódź ghetto with his young wife, finds himself offered a position to work for the chairman (also known as the elder of the Jews). With three other men of differing areas of work, they are given a special task to bookkeep for Rumkowski (the elder Jew in charge). As the war continues, and Plansthere are plans to decrease the ghetto butpopulation by some mysterious means, Benny and his coworkers write it all down. ThatThat's what is sent to the public to keep the polishPolish Jews at ease and for their own special system of keeping count. They write only half truths about what is really happening to the people. They are forced to seriously tone down the events and incidents that shouldn’t have been. Benny finds himself working in a field in whichthat most of his community mistrusts because they seem to be working alongside the Nazis to oppress the people in Łódź, what. What they fail to see is that they truly believe they are keeping their people safe by cooperating with the Germans and letting them have access to their factories. In reality, they are lying to the Jewish people;, their own people, with these half truths astruths to keep inthem naive and unknowing of what we all known isknow was to come.

I’ve read a lot of history books on WWII and on the different Polish ghettos (mainly Warsaw), but this is the first time I’m readingI’ve read an account from the view of someone who was working for the Jewish council and police force that were tasked to keepwith keeping the people in line.